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Sales No.: 1953.IIE.5This volume is an attempt to fill a need which must have been felt by everyone who is interested in the role of wood in the European economy or who has tried to grapple with timber problems on a European scale. Many of the statistics it contains are not new, since they have been taken from official sources. For the first time, however, an attempt has been made to arrive at figures for trade and production in wood and its products for every European country, and to bring them together in a form convenient for reference. In this task the FAO and ECE Secretariats have been fortunate in being able to draw on the special ‘Country Reports' which were furnished by national experts in connection with the companion study entitled 'European Timber Trends and Prospects'; these reports included much valuable data that had not been previously published.
The statistics have been assembled for the period 1913 to 1950; the war years 1914 to 1919 and 1939 to 1945 have been excluded because of the lack of adequate statistical information about them.
The present volume is divided into three sets of tables, dealing respectively with production, trade and consumption. Within each section a distinction has been made between the various wood products according to the degree of processing to which they have been subjected. Thus in general tables relating to roundwood come first, followed by those relating to primary and secondary wood products, in that order.
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